ON-this-DATE – Luther’s Last Message

The Great Reformer Martin Luther preached his final sermon  2/14/1546  at Eisleben, Germany.   It was from Mat 11.28 (which in English reads) “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

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This DATE – lawn mower arrives

 

ON-this-DATE   (on a lighter side 🙂 )

5/18/1830, One named Edwin Budding

(in England) on this date signed an agreement

for the manufacture of his new invention

– the lawn mower.  

One wit said “Saturdays are destroyed forever.”

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This DATE – 2 Negatives against Bible

 

ON-this-DATE

5/17/1844 Julius Wellhausen was born.  He became a “German biblical scholar.”  He published (1878) History of Israel in which he argued the JEDP Hypothesis (type of religious evolution), claiming Pentateuch had four sources, thus weakening the Bible.

 

5/17/1881 The Revised Version (EV or ERV) of the New Testament was first published (England). The committee that produced this mis-translation was influenced significantly by two charactors named Westcott and Hort – fellows Henry Morris, Ph.D. (founder, Insititute for Creation Research) wrote “both denied Biblical inerrancy and promoted spiritism and racism.”

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This DATE – Luther Wrote

ON-this-DATE

 

4/28 Martin Luther 1521 is said to have written

in a letter:

 

“The authority of Scripture is greater

 

than the comprehension of the whole

 

of man’s reason.”

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This DATE – U.S.Supreme Court

 

ON-this-DATE   

 

4/24, 1944, In United States v. Ballard

 

the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that no

 

governmental agency can determine

 

“the truth or falsity of the beliefs or

 

doctrines” of anyone.

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This DATE – Darwin died

ON-this-DATE

4/19, Charles Darwin, died 1882, Down House. (Is this a propheticly-related name for the end of this man?)  “Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a phantasy.” – Charles Darwin, Life and Letters, 1887, Vol. 2, p. 229.

(endnote as quoted on Animals that Defy Evolution Part III).

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Jonathan Edwards – married, July 20, 1726

Never do anything I would not want to be doing the last hour of my life.

 

Nothing puts a man so far from the devil’s reach as humility.

 

Colonial clergyman Jonathan Edwards (age 23) married Sarah Pierpont (age 16) this date, 7/20/1726.  They were married over 30 years – married until his death in 1758.  (his wife only out-lived him six months, dying at only 48).

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Beverly Carradine – converted to Christ, July 12, 1874

We love to give to those we love.

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 5.

…We give the name of virtues to our vices and go on self-deceived.                  

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 19.

The church was never sent to entertain men.                                         

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 23.

All men have not the same means to be generous.  But all have the same power to be liberal.     

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 36.

Entertainment opens the floodgates and literally submerges the church in worldliness.

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 59.

Time does not and cannot regenerate.  

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 71.

God wants the church to be a perfect contrast to the world.      

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 78.

The giver gives character to the gift.

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 87.

Beverly Carradine was converted to Christ this date, 7/12/187 and became a great Methodist evangelist.

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Samuel Francis Smith

My country,’ tis of thee,

sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;

land where my fathers died,

land of the pilgrims’ pride,

from every mountainside let freedom ring!

My native country, thee,

land of the noble free, thy name I love;

I love thy rocks and rills,

thy woods and templed hills;

my heart with rapture thrills, like that above.

Let music swell the breeze,

and ring from all the trees sweet freedom’s song;

let mortal tongues awake;

let all that breathe partake;

let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.

Our fathers’ God, to thee,

author of liberty, to thee we sing;

long may our land be bright

with freedom’s holy light;

protect us by thy might, great God, our King

Samuel Francis Smith this date, 2/2/1832 penned, “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.”  Smith was then a twenty-three-year-old Baptist seminary student.  He was born 10/21/1808 at Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts.  He died in the same location, 11/16/1895.

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J. Hudson Taylor – Sailed, Sep. 19, 1853

“Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.”

“I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.”

“The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.”

“Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.”

“You must GO forward on your knees.”

                                                                (Exact Hudson sources for the above quotes unknown.)

J. Hudson Taylor set sail this date, 9/19/1853 (aboard a three-mast clipper) from Liverpool, England bound for the great land of China.

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